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The unfiltered urge to create...
2009-04-24
Swine Flu kills dozens in Mexico, some in U.S. sickened
If you haven't heard, just go to Drudge's front page, he's shrieking it like a stuck swine.
A less hysterical AP story says something that is unsettling:
> The worrisome new virus _ which combines genetic material from
> pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before
> _ also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California,
> though there have been no deaths in the U.S.
That sounds suspiciously engineered. Pigs, Bird and Human genetic material all in one virus? I suppose it could be naturally occurring, but I have to wonder... could this be a man-made plague?
Shit. It actually could.
A less hysterical AP story says something that is unsettling:
> The worrisome new virus _ which combines genetic material from
> pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before
> _ also sickened at least eight people in Texas and California,
> though there have been no deaths in the U.S.
That sounds suspiciously engineered. Pigs, Bird and Human genetic material all in one virus? I suppose it could be naturally occurring, but I have to wonder... could this be a man-made plague?
Shit. It actually could.